Word: sum
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...sum, when the investigation ball was in Harvard's court, Harvard hit the showers," Kramer said. "And it cannot blame Merrill Lynch...
...School has agreed to make up the sum when the foundation grant runs out, but that still leaves the AIP with an operating budget of $18,000, all of which goes to the part-time salary of its director, Dr. Bette Haskins, Begay says...
Quite a few of these jeremiads are headed for the screen. Producer Ray Stark (Steel Magnolias, Annie) last week acquired film rights to Barbarians at the Gate, a best-selling account of the $25 billion takeover of RJR Nabisco, the largest buyout ever. Warner Bros. has paid a sum estimated to be in the high six figures for the privilege of filming Liar's Poker, an I-lived-with- savages expose of the Wall Street firm Salomon Brothers. And the cameras are ready to roll on the movie version of Tom Wolfe's blockbuster novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities...
...suffered a trade deficit of $115 billion last year, but Americans can take consolation from the tidy sum they are earning from foreigners in a service-oriented business: tourism. Last week the Government reported the first-ever U.S. travel surplus. During 1989 foreign visitors spent $34.3 billion in the U.S., or $450 million more than Americans spent abroad. The U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration predicts that in 1990 the surplus will exceed $1.5 billion...
Igniting a fire storm is precisely what Moynihan had in mind last December when he suggested rolling back the most recent hike in Social Security taxes. On Jan. 1 the rate climbed to 7.65% on the first $51,300 of a worker's income, a sum that employers must match. Moynihan would lower it to 7.51% this year...